Tension is building within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State, as its founding members accuse the new members who joined the party alongside Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom of marginalising them in party affairs.
Mr Eno and some of his cabinet members and supporters defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in June last year to the APC.
The governor claimed he defected to the APC in order to “connect” Akwa Ibom with the centre, since the APC is the ruling party at the national level. He also claimed that he left the PDP because he wants to campaign freely for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027.
PREMIUM TIMES became aware of the rift in the Akwa Ibom APC after Unyime Ekwere, an APC chieftain and journalist, posted a public appeal on his Facebook page on 3 January, urging Governor Eno, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and the party leadership to include founding members in the party affairs.
In his post, Mr Ekwere praised the governor for setting up an eight-man Congress Implementation Committee ahead of the 2026 congresses but warned that “friendl
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